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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

I have tweeted over the past couple weeks my excitement for the new structure of the NASSP Annual Conference. The result is that attendees will return home with action plans of interconnected ideas, rather than the scattered array of stand-alone ideas and initiatives that typify some conferences. Use of time.

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Looking Back & Remembering @Joe_Bower @DevenKBlack @BobSprankle

The Innovative Educator

While I am deeply saddened that our live conversations and interactions have come to an end, social media has provided an outlet for their ideas to live on. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis. Each of whom has influenced my practice in meaningful ways. It is a message.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? social media developments of the late 00s this was quite small scale.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. At Georgetown’s research-and-development lab, just across town fro NewU, Bass is also considering how universities can plan credential pathways that confer combined bachelor’s and master’s degrees more quickly. Then Covid decimated them.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

Part of a cadre of advisers deployed by the state to prod more Tennessee high school graduates into college, the women in this conference room have suddenly found their jobs to be much harder. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Final Notes Updates Learning Revolution Conference. The Learning Revolution Conference schedule is now up! then a full conference day on Thursday. Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom.

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